Jim Hollifield (left), director of the Tower Center for Political Studies, joined former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich in a discussion of ideology and politics on KERA Channel 13’s “McCuistion.”

Patricia Mathes, director of SMU’s Institute for Reading Research, is featured in the PBS series “Reading Rockets” in an episode to air on Dallas’ KERA Channel 13 at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 2. Mathes appears in the “Untapped Potential” segment discussing the progress children are making in several Fort Worth Independent School District elementary schools using an SMU-developed curriculum. Read more.